Best Homemade Spinach Pasta Recipes

HOMEMADE SPINACH PASTA

Steps:

• Combine water and ice in a bowl. Preheat a skillet over medium heat; add spinach. Cook, stirring continuously, until spinach turns bright green, about 30 seconds. Plunge into ice water bath; remove when spinach is lukewarm. Squeeze out excess moisture with cheese cloth.
• Combine spinach, eggs, olive oil, and salt in a food processor; blend until smooth. Add flour; blend until dough no longer sticks to the blades, adding flour as needed.
• Roll dough into a ball; wrap in plastic wrap. Rest at room temperature for 20 minutes.
• Remove plastic wrap from dough. Transfer to a work surface generously dusted with flour; cut dough into 4 pieces with a sharp knife. Roll out dough with a rolling pin to 1/4-inch thickness; shape into rectangles.
• Dust pasta maker rollers with flour. Run the dough rectangles through a pasta maker on the widest setting. Repeat rolling dough through rollers, gradually reducing the setting to desired thickness. Change pasta maker's attachment to preferred noodle shape; cut pasta with pasta maker.
• Bring a large pot of water to a boil. Lower pasta gently into water; use a spoon to keep noodles from sticking together. Cook until pasta is firm but soft, 3 to 6 minutes. Remove from the water with tongs; transfer to a bowl.

HOMEMADE SPINACH PASTA

Steps:

• 1. In bowl of stand mixer, measure out flour. Add eggs and spinach. Using the dough hook begin to knead on low. If the mixture still seems shaggy after a few minutes add a splash of olive oil to moisten it. Continue to mix and add olive as necessary until the dough comes together into a slightly tacky, but not sticky ball. Continue to knead in mixer for 3 minutes after it comes together. 2. Shape the dough into a ball and wrap it tightly in plastic wrap. Leave it out on the counter to rest for at least 30 minutes. 3. Divide the dough into 4 and begin to shape into desired pasta.